WeedSmart Podcast
Welcome to the WeedSmart Podcast Channel!
Each fortnight we'll bring you updates and in-depth interviews with farmers, agronomists and weed researchers from around our north, south and west cropping regions. #AusAg #Broadacre #Grains #Cotton #WeedManagement
Our regional update will talk to our industry leaders focusing on managing weeds, emerging regional issues and practical science-based solutions for use on-farm by you. #RegionalUpdate
Our technical update will speak with leading experts to bring the latest application of science to paddock supply chain of diverse weed management to mitigate herbicide resistance and maximise crop gross margins. #BeyondResistance
Our current podcaster, Shannon Beattie, will bring the conversation to you in your paddock, ute or tractor, so you can stay connected and plan ahead for future diverse weed management on your farm. Shannon will be joined by our team of WeedSmart Extension Agronomists Pete Newman, Chris Davey, Jana Freebairn, Greg Condon and Paul McIntosh.
Listen in to the latest podcast or scroll our back catalogue for progressive weed management over the years in Australian broadacre agriculture. Our previous podcasters Siobhon Eacott and Jessica Strauss provide a range of great interviews with farmers and agronomists for a local updates or technical experts bringing the science to you.
Stay connected. Stay informed. Stay WeedSmart.
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Episodes
239 episodes
Beyond Resistance - Growing the Next Gen of Agronomists with Nutrien's Rachel Minett and Tom Shaw
In this episode of Beyond Resistance, Shannon chats with South Coastal Agencies Lead Agronomist Rachel Minnett and Nutrien Farm Services Agronomist Tom Shaw about bridging the gap between university training and practical farm agronomy...
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Regional Update - Will Woolcock, Emerald, QLD
In this episode of Regional Update, we're joined by Will Woolcock, Branch Manager and Agronomist at Nutrien in Emerald, QLD.Will's territory extends about 200km north and south of Emerald, where he's seeing a lot more growers pl...
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Regional Update - Paul Ackland, Arthurton SA
In this episode of Regional Update we're joined by Paul "Chippa" Ackland, senior agronomist at Central Ag Solutions in Arthurton SA. Following a very hot summer, some much needed March rain has brought out ryegrass and cape weed germin...
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Regional Update - Angus Roberts, Dandaragan, WA
In this episode of Regional Update, we're joined by Angus Roberts, a young grower from Dandaragan, WA. Angus chats to host Shannon about his mixed farming operation 160km north of Perth and their history with clethodim resistance. S...
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Beyond Resistance - Spray Water Quality with Richard Holzknecht & Jeshua Smith
This Beyond Resistance podcast episode featuring experts Richard Holzknecht and Jeshua Smith from VICCHEM is an essential resource for farmers and agronomists looking to optimise their herbicide mix in the tank and ensure every drop counts.&nbs...
Regional Update - Kate Shooter, Toowoomba, QLD
In this episode of Regional Update, we hear from Kate Shooter, an agronomist at McGregor Gourlay based in Toowoomba. Kate shares how conditions are progressing in the Eastern and Western Downs regions of Queensland, particularly in the...
Regional Update - Reece Rayson, Kimba, SA
In this episode of Regional Update, we hear from Reece Rayson, who continues to make the best out of a couple of below average rainfall seasons, with an eye on the WeedSmart Big 6 to lead the challenge on herbicide resistance.&n...
Beyond Resistance – Early harvest tips from around the Regions
In this episode of Beyond Resistance, we hear from our WeedSmart Extension Agronomists from the Western and Southern regions on steps to take from this point in the season with cool soft spring finish to the winter growing season a...
Regional Update - Erin Dalton, Forbes, NSW
In this episode of Regional Update, we hear from Erin Dalton, Baker Ag Advantage, an experienced agronomist working closely with growers in her region to tackle the season’s biggest challenges. Erin shares valuable on-the-ground insi...
Who Really Decides How You Spray?
Tom Wolfe pulls back the curtain on the forces driving (and sometimes derailing) new spray technology – and how farmers can cut through the noise to find what will work for them!In this episode of Beyond Resistance, spray technolo...
Regional Update - Austin Rayner, Nabawa, Midwest WA
Austin Rayner, farm manager with EF Smart Pty Ltd, brings an update from Midwest WA with insights into the weed strategy after a period of soil amelioration investment combined with new chemistry, leading to a low weed seed bank p...
Regional Update - Max Schmelzer, Jimbour Plains, SE Qld
Our June Regional Update gives us an insight into the Northern cropping region during this year, as crops are being harvested and sown simultaneously with the season presenting a few challenges. Hear from UQ graduate, Max Schmelzer as he ...
Regional Update - Greg Condon, Northern Region, & Jana Freebairn, Southern Region
In this episode, we hear from our WeedSmart Extension Agronomists, Jana Freebairn and Greg Condon, updating from their respective Southern and lower Northern growing regions.With many farms commencing a dry seeding program to efficiently...
Beyond Resistance - Nipping Gazania In The Bud with Ali Bajwa & Chris Davey
As our farming environment changes with our management, so to do the plant populations growing across our landscape. Gazania, a long-term weed within Australia is taking advantage of harsher summers competing well where water is a ...
Regional Update - Chris Davey, Southern Extension Agronomist, SA
The regional update from the southern growing region with WeedSmart Extension Agronomist Chris Davey, providing you with a dry seeding update for 2025, soil moisture observations and challenges for crop health. With negative moistu...
Regional Update - Henry Coleman, Jamestown, SA
Welcome to 2025!The first Regional Update of 2025 takes us to Lock Valley Farms in South Australia, with Henry Coleman, a mixed operations grower and Youtuber.Documenting his life on the farm alongside his family, he filled us in ...
Seed dormancy 101 and a Western region update
In this episode of the WeedSmart Podcast, we talk about how weed seeds can adapt their dormancy, discussing the selection pressures, interactions with herbicides and the recommended actions from growers to get ahead.We also caught up wi...
Header Run – The imi resistance issue: Dealing with broadleaf weeds in 2024 and beyond
Join WeedSmart Southern Extension Agronomists Jana Freebairn and Chris Davey in discussing the rising resistance to imi’s (imidazolinone) in broadleaf weeds, in 2024 and beyond.Imi resistance is a growing issue within our cropping system...
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Regional Update – Ian Pursehouse, Grower, West Wyalong, NSW
Ian Pursehouse is our guest for this episode of the Regional Update.Located in NSW, in West Wyalong, Ian and his family transitioned from a mixed operation to 100% dryland cropping in the late 2010's, and have been learning from every e...
Regional Update – Stuart Vlahov, Grower, Ellendale, WA
This Regional Update Podcast episode, we're joined by grower Stuart Vlahov from Western Australia.Stu is a grower in Ellendale, WA, around 35kms south-east of Geraldton near Walkaway, who has recently been using two drones to spray crop...
Looking forward to WeedSmart Week 2024!
In this episode of the WeedSmart Podcast, we heard from Josh Hollitt, an Independant Agronomist located in the Eyre Peninsula, who is presenting at the upcoming WeedSmart Week in Port Lincoln. Speaking on summer weed control strategies,...
Regional Update – Vicky French, Grower, Derrinallum, Vic
This week on the Regional Update, we are joined by former agronomist and grower Vicky French.With nearly 10 years of experience working for Elders as an agronomist, and now a grower with her husband in Derrinallum, Victoria, Vicky...
Deep placement of phosphorus and potassium (P&K)
Joining us on this extra-long episode of the WeedSmart Podcast was Mike Bell, who shared his extensive experience of soil nutrition and more recent work into P&K deep placement in the northern regions. We also talked with Kurt Mayne...
Regional Update – Angus Dalgliesh, Agronomist, Cloncurry, QLD
This week on the Regional Update, we are joined by agronomist Angus Dalgliesh.Angus is an agronomist with Nutrien Ag Solutions who has recently moved from Dalby to Cloncurry in north-west Queensland, taking on the challenge and opportun...
Pre-emergent options and a resistance update
In this episode, we talk to Bevan Addison of Adama about pre-emergent herbicide options in canola, and getting the best out of products.We also spoke to Senior Research Officer Mechelle Owen, who works within the Australian Herbicide Re...